National Water Opportunities

5 days ago

Sydney, Australia KBR Full time

**Title**:
National Water Opportunities

Are you looking to expand your horizons and deliver high profile, exciting projects and leave a legacy?

We value an inclusive and diverse work environment and are working together to build a culture that embraces each other’s unique strengths and experiences.

Our people are important to us and you will play a key role in contributing to the success of our business. We believe in empowering our employees, nurturing development within a culture of trust. We are looking for someone that is willing to step up and build upon opportunities. We will encourage and empower you to work in a way that suits your style and look forward to discussing the ways in which we can build success.

The Opportunity

We have exciting opportunities for multiple people with Water Industry Design or Construction Experience to join us and assist in the delivery of our clients major projects.

You’ll be a key member of our Water team, who have secured a variety of challenging projects that will change the way NSW operate by providing a more efficient and integrated water system to cater to the growth of NSW and maintain and enhance outstanding environmental outcomes. Our water team offers services across the full water cycle, delivering major pipelines, large pumping stations and advanced water, wastewater and recycling treatment.

We address critical water cycle challenges and provide solutions through adopting flexible program delivery models and ongoing asset management programs. We have robust work in hand supporting key water utilities such as Sydney Water, Water NSW, Sydney Desalination Plant, SA Water, Urban Utilities and Melbourne Water as well as Regional and private water utilities to achieve phased savings in capital expenditure, while delivering the best environmental and community outcomes that keep the cost of water bills low for millions of Australian people and businesses.

You will play a key role in the water team and strongly contribute to projects, client relationships, and the commercial success of the business unit. You will work with a diverse team of talented people who are committed to supporting our clients through long-term partnership arrangements; not to mention a key contributor to delivering projects.

You will have input into the strategic direction of our NSW and National business by drawing on your experience, knowledge, and contacts to identify market trends, future opportunities, and areas where we can add greater value to clients.

Our team is also exploring new ways to integrate virtual reality and artificial intelligence on projects, offering you the opportunity to future proof and broaden your skills in the digital sphere.

Who are you?

We are looking to add additional staff to the below areas of our business.

Water Engineers

Wastewater Engineers

Treatment Engineers

Water Resources Engineers

Flood Engineers

Water Civil Engineers

Project Engineers

Project Managers

What we do

KBR’s Infrastructure Services Australia business offers a wide range of professional consulting services to private and public sector clients to deliver projects of any size in both urban and remote environments in transport, water and environment, buildings, defence infrastructure and program management consultancy. Our workforce of over 750 is technically and geographically diversified to match the characteristics of our principal markets and has the capability to service our clients’ requirements through all phases of project development and implementation.

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While our people are busy delivering leading science, technology and engineering solutions, we’re committed to providing them with a supportive, trusting environment and benefits that enable them to thrive and continue doing what they do best.

We can offer you flexible and family friendly working arrangements including flexibility with hours as well as your work location. You will receive ongoing professional development and the opportunity to work with technically eminent professionals. Employees of KBR may benefit from up to 8 additional hours of accrued flexible leave every 4 weeks.

KBR has all the benefits of a global organization with a local company feel. You’ll get to know everyone in the Australian business and won’t just be a number.

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